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l G.E.ADAMS. GAST-OPF FOR SUSPENDBR ENDS.

Patented Jan. 17, 189s.

UNITED STATES PATENT erica.

GEORGE E. ADAMS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE TRAUT dt HINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEWv BRITAIN, CON- CAST-OFF FOR SUSPENDER-ENDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,058, dated January 1'?, 1893.

Application led November 3, 1892. Serial No. 450,842. (No model.)

the plate as in Fig. 2, or att-ached thereto as 5o an improved cast off for suspender ends, ca-` pable of being easily engaged or disengaged by the wearer and which shall have the advantage of aswiveling motion to accommodate the suspender to the motions of the wearer, combined With a minimum liability of acci dental disengagement.

Aturtherobject is to provideadevice which shall be as thin as the ordinary suspender webbing or buckle, to which ends the invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts all as will be nOW described and pointed out particularly in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figures 1 and 2 are front elevations of the preferred form of cast off, shown as forming a part of the suspender buckle. Figs. 3 and 4 are rear elevations of the eye portions alone. Fig. 5 is a section on line :zt-, Fig. l. Fig. 6 is a section on line y-y, Fig. 2. Fig. 7 isa rear elevation of a modified form of the eye portion.

Like letters of reference in the several tigures denote the same parts.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated, I have employed a stud portion or plate A attached to or forming part of a suspender buckle or slide such as B, and an eye portion or plate C attached to orforming part of a loop or equivalent D, for the attachment of the suspender end, although it is obvious this arrangement of the co-operating members may be reversed. The stud portion or plate A may be of any desired construction suitable to form a rigid base for the reception of a stud or headed projection c.. This headed projection may be formed integral With in Fig. 1, but in any instance the head is but slightly larger than the body, and in practice is formed by constructing the projection with an annular groove or recess in its side Wall, thereby producing an enlargement or head with Well rounded edges the utility of which will be presently seen.

The co-operating member, or as I have denominated it, eye portion, consists essentially of a plate C having a circular aperture c formed therein of such size as to j ust allow of the passage of the head of the projection and to the back of this pla-te is secured a spring member which is adapted to project slightly over the aperture c and thereby in eliect reduce the size of the same to a diameter less than that of the head of the projection c, but capable of being enlarged to allow the head to pass, and at once close beneath it to hold it in place.

The plate O is provided with a guard overlying the spring member, which guard may take the form of an annular flange E as in Figs. 3 and 5,01 of a series of lingers as in Fig. 4.

In the preferred construction, the spring member just referred to, consists of a plate F having an aperture f therein of the saine or approximately the same size as the aperture e in the front plate, but set eccentrically thereto as shown, being held in such position by spring pressure. In Figs. I and 3 the plate F forms part of a double spring shank G which passes around the loop D and is at'- tached thereto by the fold of metal d einployed to form the round cross bar. The spring pressed plate in this form moves longitudinally of the device, but in Figs. 2 and 4, the plate is `mounted on a single spring shank H, which in'turn is rigidly attached to the plate D, by solder or otherwise, and tends t0 move the plate laterally as shown in Fig. 4. When the head of the projection is forced through the aperture, the spring plate enters the annular groove onv one side and moving the projection itself to one side with relation to the front plate causes the Wall of the aperture e to enter the groove on the opposite side, thereby retaining' the projection until a positive outward pull releases it. The parts have a perfect sWiveling motion upon each other to accommodate the suspender end to the movement of the wearer.

The guard iiange maybe employed to retain spring arms in place,instead of the apertured plate, as shown for instance in Fig. 7 wherein spring-arms I are rigidly attached to the plate D and cross the edges of the aperture c in po sition to engage the annular groove in the projection, the ends of the arms being turned outward and given a Wide bearing beneath the guard flangawhereby the necessary strength is imparted to the parts to resist ordinary pressure Without injury.

The size of the aperture e prevents any straining of the spring, as the stud or proj ec tion can only move a limited distance and in use the strain of the direct pull is all borne by the plate C-the spring pressed plate being either advanced from the side or back of the aperture.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new iszl. In a cast oft for suspcnderends, the combination with the member having the headed projection, of the cooperating member formed by the superposed plates lying in contact with each other one having a limited bodily lateral movement relative to the other and both having apertures therein of approximately the size of the head of thc projection said apertures being arranged slightly eccentric to eac n other; substantially as described.

2. In a cast-olf for suspender ends, the combination With the member having the headed projection, of the plate C having an aperture therein for the admission of the headed projection, a spring pressed plate F mounted on said plate C and having an aperture there1n eccentric to the aperture in plate C, With .L guard for holding said plates together; su ostantially as described. 3. In a cast oft for suspender ends, the combination with the member having the headed projection of the plate Chaving the aperture therein, the plate F having a corresponding aperture therein arranged eccentrically to the aperture in the plate C and a spring shaun carrying said plate F connected rigidly to the plate C, substantially as described.

el. In a cast off for suspender ends the com binations with members having the headed projection, of the plate C having the aperture therein and guard flange on the rear side, and the apertured plate F confined beneath said guard flange and connected to the plate C by a spring shank the apertures in said plates being arranged eccentrically to each other: substantially as described.

GEORGE E. ADAMS.

W'itnesses:

E. N. STANLEY, H. W. EDDY. 

